My dad used to have a boss (at the VP level) who he pejoratively nicknamed "VPGPT", because he thought the guy's management was not significantly better or even different than what you'd get from ChatGPT.
Remarkable is quite different because it uses an E-Ink Gallery display, as opposed to the E-Ink Kaleido displays found on most cheaper colour e-readers such as yours. Gallery has true CYMK e-ink pigments while Kaleido is just mono e-ink with a passive RGB filter array on top.
I'm not a fan of Kaleido, as you say the colours are underwhelming, and the RGB filter attenuates light so the contrast is noticeably worse than classic mono e-ink. Gallery is way more expensive and slower to refresh though, so pick your poison.
I have been using color eInk displays since Triton was still thing, and despite promises everywhere that each new generation of color display was miles better than the previous one, this has never been true, and when I compare my JetBook (eInk Triton and still running Windows CE!) with the Remarkable Paper Color, I sometimes think the colors _are actually more vivid on the JetBook_. (Not a very high bar). In comparisons with the PocketBook/Kaleido, Gallery definitely _loses_. The contrast also _still_ takes a huge hit in the Remarkable Paper compared to the 2, and TFA also points that, albeit it may have to do with the frontlight rather than Gallery (but who knows).
This is the level of improvement in eInk over 20 years.
It does feel like they're spreading their resources pretty thin though, the S3-compatible interface for their file storage has been "coming soon" since 2022.
S3 is currently in closed preview with some users. It's quite easy to get added for those keen to try it. More using it and providing feedback, the quicker it'll become public preview.
I cannot really tell satire apart from genuine opinions anymore.
(But I do hope it was satire, if not, cooling satelites was/is a big issue and they only have very modest heat creation. A data center would be in a quite different ballpark)
I really would like to see a cost and cooling breakdown. I just can't see how you can do radiative cooling on the scales required, not to mention hardening.
I thought this was a troll by Elon, now I'm leaning towards not. I don't see how whatever you build being dramatically faster and cheaper to do on land, even 100% grid independent with solar and battery. Even if the launch cost was just fuel, everything else that goes into putting data centers in space dwarfs the cost of 4x solar plus battery.
To add insult to injury, the obvious path is for studios to switch from Adobe to ToonBoom... which already copied Adobe's playbook by going subscription-only last year.
For context, although Flash Player died a long time ago, the editor lived on in "offline" 2D animation workflows where the end result is rendered out to video. Lots of kids shows are still made with it, and at least some anime studios use it (e.g. Science SARU).
> Although the Flash Player app formally reached its end of life on December 31, 2020, Adobe has allowed a local Chinese company to continue distributing Flash inside China, where the application still remains a large part of the local IT ecosystem and is broadly used across both the public and private sectors.
Sounds like too many big institutional websites depend on Flash.
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